Love the One You’re With

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Love the One You’re With by Emily Giffin

Rating: 3 of 5 stars
It was an easy read and the flow was good. I felt the main character Ellen’s attempts to assuage her guilt of cheating emotionally with her ex by judging her husband too heavily for trivial issues came through well. At first I couldn’t understand why she would be tempted to go back to her ex Leo but the chemistry between them on the red-eye flight was well-narrated and the attraction became obvious.

However, I felt that the ending was too rushed and a little too preachy. While I applaud the fact that the heroine decided to do the right thing and not foolishly abandon her solid marriage for the ex who blows hot and cold to people he’s in a relationship with, I think Ellen sounded a bit like a martyr and a victim of circumstance for most of the book. And that made it hard to empathize fully with her.

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